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IOANNA KANELLOPOULOU

DECEMBER 2025

Ioanna Kanellopoulou was born and raised in Athens. She is a Health Visitor specializing in the field of mental health, having graduated from the Higher Technological Educational Institute of Athens (2007). She completed her postgraduate studies abroad in the field of dance movement psychotherapy at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she obtained her Master of Arts in Dance Movement Psychotherapy in 2013.

She has worked for the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, applying dance movement psychotherapy to individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities, adults with emotional disorders, students with learning, behavioral, and emotional difficulties, as well as individuals with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

She is active in facilitating dance movement psychotherapy groups, particularly for adults with learning disabilities, at the "Filomeni" Day Care and Support Center in Athens.

Dance therapy / Dance Movement Psychotherapy, as defined by the Association for Dance Movement Therapy UK (ADMT UK, 1977), is "the psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance as a process which furthers the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual."

Its purpose is to provide a serious and meaningful approach to the meaning of life, mental health, and the overall process of personal integration and growth.

She is a member of the Panhellenic Association of Health Visitors (P.S.E.Y.) and the Greek Association of Dance Therapists.